The Old & Rare Whisky Show Glasgow is a festival showing an older style of whisky. Modern day whisky tends to be made with distillers yeast, powerful fresh casks, wood finishes and condensers. At the Old and [...]

I’ve had a bit of a love/hate relationship with The Macallan over the years. A decade or more ago, the 18yo was one of the first examples of sherry matured whisky which I properly loved. The 12yo Sherry Oak was a [...]

To begin 2017, Tiger, Graeme, Jason & I have vowed to blog more, and get Edinburgh Whisky Blog back to being a busy website again. Tiger has been doing well to keep it going, but we 3 will be chipping in more [...]

Turning 21 years old is a big deal. The awkward teenage years are behind you, you’ve survived the transition into young adulthood and are finding your feet at university. In the US this age is of utmost importance, [...]

Following on from a £300,000 refurbishment of its Queen Street venue, The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has now launched a rather special whisky selection in its new Kaleidoscope Bar. This is the first time non-SMWS [...]